Shared Sense-making in Curriculum Reform: Orchestrating the Local Curriculum Work

Conversing for conversion: Turning system wide curriculum into local curriculum reform

The challenge of reforming curriculum within an education system remains as fresh today as it ever was when researchers began to seriously investigate the nature of what resulted from the implementation of innovations which had not been generated by those who were intended to put them into practice, and especially when innovations were being designed to attempt to strengthen educational rigour ...

Medical Education and Curriculum Reform:

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate criteria by which the principles of curriculum reform can be judged. To this end, the paper presents an overview of standard critiques of medical education and examines the ways medical curriculum reforms have responded to these critiques. The paper then sets out our assessment of these curriculum reforms along three parameters: pedagogy, educational co...

Curriculum reform: a narrated journey.

OBJECTIVES Curriculum reform poses significant challenges for medical schools across the globe. Understanding the medical educator's personal and lived experience of curriculum change is paramount. This paper illustrates the use of narrative inquiry as a means of exploring the author's own evolving professional identity as a medical educator engaged in planning and leading curriculum reform and...

Approaches to Multicultural Curriculum Reform

Perspectives on Curriculum Making

We are in the early days of exploration into the teaching and learning of ASL and interpreting. Much of the last 40 years has been spent in establishing ASL and Deaf Culture as legitimate fields of study. Having gained this recognition, we can now afford the relative luxury of inquiry into competing points of view on what should be taught, how it ought to be taught, how we learn, and how we can...